Deadline:
May 01, 2024
Program Starts: July 08, 2024
Program Ends: July 19, 2024
Location(s)
Italy
Rome
Overview
This 10-day summer institute and professional development course focuses on lessons learned, future directions, and advanced conversations on health and risk communication related to the COVID-19 pandemic and other ongoing and past epidemics and emerging disease outbreaks in different regions worldwide. The course is grounded in the theory and practice of Social and Behavior Change (SBC), Social and Behavior Change Communication (SBCC), Health Equity, and Human Rights.
It will provide participants with practical skills, strategies, and resources on a participatory, multisectoral, integrated, and community-driven approach to communication that aims to achieve social, behavioral, and policy results in pandemic and interpandemic settings (including the preparedness, response, and recovery phases).
Details
The course is organized into discussion/learning units, each of which includes several topics.
The first week of the course will be dedicated to an introduction, lessons learned from the pandemic, including an overview of future directions, and core principles for a system-thinking and equity-driven approach to health and risk communication. Participants will also practice select communication planning concepts, skills, and strategies within an integrated framework grounded in health equity, system-thinking, and human rights, which aims at social, behavioral, policy, and organizational change. The role of community-driven interventions and policies will also be discussed with particular emphasis on resources and skill-building for community and patient engagement.
The second week of the course will be dedicated to topics on the implementation and evaluation phases of health and risk communication interventions and research efforts. The role of participatory media, participatory evaluation, media ethics, mixed research methods, trust in health and science information, infodemic management, and other timely topics will also be discussed.
Across the two weeks, implications of the course content for other health and social areas, community and population health issues, and for addressing social, structural, and political determinants of health will be discussed.
Ultimately, through a combination of presentations and guest lectures, advanced discussions and Q&A sessions, case studies, hands-on training, and experiential exercises, participants will gain knowledge and skills in several essential principles and strategies of health and risk communication in an interpandemic world.
The course will be in English and is designed for a maximum of 25 participants.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Health, communication, international development, human rights, and community development professionals from a variety of sectors, organizations, and countries, including international organizations, government agencies, foundations, nonprofit organizations, community-based organizations, hospitals, and others. The course is open to all interested parties and is likely to benefit professionals who work on any kind of health, social, or disease issue/area and/or anyone who intends to work in health and risk communication in the future.
Dates
Deadline: May 01, 2024
Program starts:
July 08, 2024
Program ends:
July 19, 2024
Program Starts: July 08, 2024
Program Ends: July 19, 2024
Cost/funding for participants
FEES:
- €2,000 (euros)/participant (without accommodations)
- €2,800 (euros)/participant (with accommodations in AUR shared apartments)
Un-save Opportunity
Internships, scholarships, student conferences and competitions.
